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From: Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Need a script that will add pwdfail IPs to shorewall blacklist
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:44:37
Message-Id: 200509180331.j8I3VHZI014378@robin.gentoo.org
1 I was poking around my system today and noticed a log that I never knew
2 existed.
3
4 /var/log/pwdfail/*
5
6 Much to my surprise, I see all these entries (hundreds) from some 'blankety
7 blank blank' trying to hack my server!!
8
9 daevid pwdfail # cat current
10 Sep 17 13:00:25 [sshd(pam_unix)] authentication failure; logname= uid=0
11 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=61.103.229.40
12 Sep 17 13:00:27 [sshd] Failed password for invalid user webmaster from
13 61.103.229.40 port 49431 ssh2
14 Sep 17 13:00:29 [sshd(pam_unix)] authentication failure; logname= uid=0
15 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=61.103.229.40
16 Sep 17 13:00:31 [sshd] Failed password for invalid user oracle from
17 61.103.229.40 port 49556 ssh2
18 Sep 17 13:00:33 [sshd(pam_unix)] authentication failure; logname= uid=0
19 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=61.103.229.40
20 Sep 17 13:00:35 [sshd] Failed password for mysql from 61.103.229.40 port
21 49660 ssh2
22 Sep 17 13:00:37 [sshd(pam_unix)] authentication failure; logname= uid=0
23 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=61.103.229.40 user=root
24 Sep 17 13:00:39 [sshd] Failed password for root from 61.103.229.40 port
25 49769 ssh2
26 Sep 17 13:00:41 [sshd(pam_unix)] authentication failure; logname= uid=0
27 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=61.103.229.40 user=root
28 Sep 17 13:00:43 [sshd] Failed password for root from 61.103.229.40 port
29 49879 ssh2
30
31 I figure there should be a script someone has written that will parse this
32 and automatically add these unique IP addresses (sans redundant ones) to my
33 /etc/shorewall/blacklist
34
35 Google for "shorewall pwdfail" doesn't have very many results though, and
36 the ones there are in german or something.
37
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need a script that will add pwdfail IPs to shorewall blacklist Brian Parish <brian@×××××××××××××.com>